Psychologists giving a battery of tests that netted a single score such as mental age, developmental age, or an IQ sought to gain a better understanding of the factors that went into that score. One way to do this was to arrange the numerical data on a scattergram, that is to say a diagram that gave the results of individual tests in the battery. This is a blank score sheet that could be used to produce a scattergram from results of tests in the Wechsler-Bellvue Scales from about 1940. Tests in this examination were divided into two general categories - verbal (tests of comprehension, information, digit span, arithmetic, similarities, and vocabulary) and performance (tests of picture arrangement, picture completion, block diagram, object assembly, and digit symbol). There are rows for entering the weighted score of results of each of these tests as a number between 0 and 17. There are also rows for the average score on the verbal tests, the average score on the performance tests, and the average score on all the tests.
For materials relating to the Wechsler-Bellvue intelligence tests, see 1989.0710.28 as well as 1990.0034.034 through 1990.0034.041.
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